Dom podcieniowy nr 56, Traditional arcaded house in Jelonki, Poland.
Dom podcieniowy nr 56 is a single-storey timber-framed house in Jelonki, its front gallery carried on wooden posts that support the overhanging roof. The gallery runs the length of the facade, giving the building its name and providing a sheltered walkway.
The house was built around 1900, when Jelonki lay in East Prussia. Its timber-framed arcade, supported by wooden posts, sheltered the entrance from rain and snow. After 1945 the village became part of Poland, and the building was later entered in the monument register as an example of regional wooden construction.
The arcaded house type, with its front gallery under the roof overhang, was built in Warmia and Masuria by settlers from the Vistula delta and the Netherlands from the 18th century onward. In Jelonki the gallery sheltered the entrance and household work from rain and snow, and the wooden posts could be replaced one at a time.
The building is easily accessible on foot and can be viewed from the street to appreciate its distinctive covered gallery. The protected walkway provides shelter while observing the structure's wooden posts and roof overhang.
The house carries two numbers: 56 today and 36 before the street was renumbered. The older number survives in heritage records, so the same building appears under both designations in monument registers and old cadastral documents.
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